When Indiana Became the Favorite | Just Wondering with Norm Hitzges

It's Monday, January 19th, and today, I'm just wondering about the incredible ascension of Indiana, playing for a national champion. And now a word from our title sponsor. I'm Retirement.

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Has there ever been anything quite like the phenomenon of the Indiana Hoosiers this year? In fact, the last two years? Consider, if you will, what happens historically if the favored Hoosiers complete an undefeated season by winning the national championship this year?

Indiana would finish 16 and O. Last year, they were 13 and 2 and lost to the playoffs. That would be 29 wins in two years.

Nobody's ever been better than 16 and O, and nobody's ever had 29 wins in two years. Coach Kurt Signity arrived two years ago to take over, I'm trying to be nice here, a pig. They'd been 9 and 27 the last three years before Signity arrived.

They were the second biggest losing college football program in the history of the sport. Bloomington, Indiana, is where coaching career went to die. And then Signity, a college football lifer, a small school lifer arrived.

How small? Well, he spent five years at Loris College, L-O-R-A-S. Do you know where Loris College is?

Ask Mr. Google. Signity had moved up to James Madison and turned a powerful program into even more than a powerhouse before he got the Indiana job.

And then he brought 13 James Madison players with him to Indiana. And he talked the California quarterback for Nendo Mendoza into transferring to Indiana. Now, Mendoza is a Heisman Trophy winner and will be the number one pick in the NFL draft in late April, taken by the Las Vegas Raiders.

And all thanks to Kurt Signity. This is already the greatest turnaround for a program in college football history. And it's been accomplished in the Big Ten.

Going past giants like Ohio State and Michigan and Penn State and past solid programs like Iowa and Wisconsin and a conference just added Big Time Pack 12 heavyweights Oregon, USC, Washington, UCLA. Those are college football blue blunts. All Indiana had ever done in their history as a college program was bleed.

713 losses in their history. And then, Signity. Now Indiana in the last two years has lost two games, 28 and 2.

This year, they are 9 and 0 against bowl teams. And in those games, they outgain their opponent by an average of 145 yards per game. This team, it's just incredible, they've held 11 of their 15 opponents to their season low in points and 6 to their season low in yards.

And remember, they've faced 9 bowl teams. After Signity, his teams are 19 and 1 when they are single digit favorites and their favorite eight and a half tonight. Signity at James Madison and Indiana combined is 39 and 1 when his team allows under 24 points.

And this year, no Indiana opponent had scored more than 24 points. To get here at the end of the season, Indiana beat Ohio State and then Alabama and then Oregon, you talk about cream of the crop programs. Now Miami, though, word of warning, they are not without a punters chance in this game.

They have two players from their defensive line who will be drafted in the first round of the NFL draft. And likely in the first 20 picks, Ruben Baines and Akim Masidor. They've got a really solid quarterback and veteran Carson Beck who won the National Championship at Georgia.

And they're playing at a high level and on what is their home field. But Indiana is doing things we basically have never witnessed before, imagine, just imagine. You're an astronaut and a sports fan.

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Thanks for listening to today's episode of Just One Ring. I'm Norm Hitzkes and know that every day I'll be just wondering about something. And I'm Mary Hitzkes and I'll just be wondering too.

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